The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they have printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you love. 4. Cross out the ones you don't know, or don't want to read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein 3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6. The Bible 7 Withering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11. Little Women by Lousia May Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Works of Shakespeare- A few plays here and there 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol 30. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 71. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87. Charlotte's Webb by E. B. White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
So I've read...12 of theM! LOL! how many have YOU read???? Take it if you want!!!
Yeah I'll probly do this! Looks pretty fun.
Oh, and yes, you clicked on my DON'T CLICK link, so what you said is right and your in trouble and get a time out. LOL jking :D
~~Bryan
Hi! This is a blog about me [a 12 year old elfin anomaly girl] Here I'll share troubles, stories, poems, my daily-stuff, crazy stuff, my faith, my love for fantasy...etc... Their will be some randomness that I'll throw in...just an FWI!!! :D...Anyways, please enjoy reading about me, an anomaly girl....oh and all the avatars I got off of iconator or other peoples blogs, so none of the photobucket accounts are mine....just letting you know! :D
You are independent, passionate and unconventional, with a sharp tongue and a quick mind. But you have a quick temper and sometimes forget who you're talking to...
You are Arwen, Princess of Rivendell. You are lovely and tall and graceful. Sweet is your temper and gentle your smile. Your heart is stolen by the handsome and noble Aragorn, yet because of the obedience and love you show to your father, you wait to claim your beloved and so learn patience. Your thought is ever on your lover and you do all you can to aid him, while your heart is heavy and tears fall from your grey eyes. You find great happiness when at last you wed him you love, and you enjoy more than 100 years of joy with him, bearing many children. In the end, you learn the sorrow that accompanies death; but because of your tremendous loyalty to those you love, you pass beyond this life to join him your heart desires.
You are most like Frodo. You're very friendly, and you have a great personality. Although you like to have fun, you can also be pretty serious at times. It's pretty hard to get you mad, but once you're mad...everybody better look out! Keep that temper under control and realize that you're better off than you may think.
What LoTR Character Are You?
Your Birth Month is June
Peaceful and harmonious, you seek the gentle side of life.
Your warmth and consideration touches many.
Feminine and dreamy, your beauty style is classic and very vintage.
But you never look out of style! You have a way of making classic looks modern again.
You are a total daydreamer, and people tend to think you're flakier than you actually are.
While your head is often in the clouds, you'll always come back to earth to help someone in need.
Beyond being a caring person, you are also very intelligent and rational.
You understand the connections of the universe better than almost anyone else.
Your personality type is dreamy, romantic, elegant, and expressive.
Only about 5% of all people have your personality, including 6% of all women and 4% of all men
You are Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Perceiving.
You don't just create compelling stories, you see them as clearly as a movie in your mind.
You have a knack for details and dialogue. You can really make a character come to life.
Chances are, you enjoy creating all types of stories. The joy is in the storytelling.
And nothing would please you more than millions of people seeing your story on the big screen!
You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out.
Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia.
Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person.
You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection.
You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive.
You have the classic "Type A" personality.
You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.
You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.
You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.
You are quite introverted. You enjoy keeping to yourself and cultivating your talents.
You are dedicated and focused. If practice makes perfect, you're willing to keep practicing.
While some people may dismiss you as boring, you can be quite edgy and interesting.
You can fit in almost anywhere... and your style ranges from conservative to funky.
Your world is colored in calm, understated, deep colors.
You are a loyal person, and the truest friend anyone could hope to find.
On the inside, you tend to be emotional and even a bit moody.
However, you know that people depend on you. So you put on a strong front.
Your color wheel opposite is orange. Orange people may be opinionated, but you feel they lack the depth to truly understand what they're saying.
A total dreamer, you spend most of your time with your head in the clouds.
You often think of the future, and you are always working toward your ideal life.
Also nostalgic, you rarely forget a meaningful moment... even those from long ago.
Relationships and feelings are the most important things to you.
You are empathetic and accepting - and good at avoiding conflict.
If someone close to you is in pain, it makes you hurt as well.
You try to heal the ones you love with your kind and open heart.
Dreamy and creative, you the potential in everyone ... and everything!
And while you strive to have an ideal life, you are pretty mellow about it. You know your time will come.
Some people might find you to be strange, mysterious, and even a bit off putting.
You tend to be drawn to and influenced by alternative lifestyles. You're definitely not normal.
Once people get to know you, they realize you're interesting, intriguing, and very intelligent.
You have a lot of knowledge stored in that big brain of yours. Most of it is useless knowledge, but some of it is very useful.
Introspective and reflective, you think about everything and anything.
You are a soft-hearted daydreamer. You long for your ideal life.
You love silence and solitude. Everyday life is usually too chaotic for you.
Given enough time alone, it's easy for you to find inner peace.
You tend to be spiritual, having found your own meaning of life.
Wise and patient, you can help people through difficult times.
At your worst, you brood and sulk. Your negative thoughts can trap you.
You are reserved and withdrawn. This makes it hard to connect to others.
You tend to over think small things, making decisions difficult.
You are spiritual, intuitive, and serene.
People trust you to rescue them from bad situations, and you usually come through.
While you are quite enlightened, you find that your path is very lonely.
When you are too violet: you can't connect to ordinary life or ordinary people
When you don't have enough violet: you lack wisdom and can't learn from the past
You are Katara. Your responsible, sweet natured, and protective of others. You are easy going and friendly. You get along really well with Aang, and your brother Sokka. You do have a pretty bad temper; however, it rarely shows. You are kind and like to have fun sometimes. You are the responsible one as you always help to get your friends out of trouble. Plus you are always calm. Your favorite power is Water and the weapon you are best with is your self. Quiz by TheQuizzery.com
You are a Firebender!
The first firebenders were taught by Dragons. To the Fire Nation, fire represented destruction and anger was central to firebending. True firebending involves balance, emotional stability and inner calm, as fire truly represents life. Firebending draws its power from the sun and is stronger during the day, strongest during Sozin’s comet which arrives every hundred years. Firebending is not possible during a solar eclipse.
Hi! This is a blog about me [a 12 year old elfin anomaly girl] Here I'll share troubles, stories, poems, my daily-stuff, crazy stuff, my faith, my love for fantasy...etc... Their will be some randomness that I'll throw in...just an FWI!!! :D...Anyways, please enjoy reading about me, an anomaly girl....oh and all the avatars I got off of iconator or other peoples blogs, so none of the photobucket accounts are mine....just letting you know! :D
